Wednesday, December 15, 2010

This is just sad... Doodles? Bad Drawing #39

However, yesterday, my friend Sam called me at work while I was watching some edits. Without thinking, for the first time in weeks, I started drawing.

Unfortunately it was on my actual edit notes.

Lets break this down...

To the top left appear to be two "renderings" of Tie Fighters.

Those especially suck because, #1, how nerdy am I that when I mindlessly draw, it's a TIE fighter and what looks like a bent wing TIE fighter or Tie andvanced X1 (Vaders TIE)?

And, #2, the TIE fighter is completely wrong. The side wings don't have 8 panels, they have 6. Durrrr. Turn in my nerd badge.

What the hell is this? A strange otherworldly structure? I building from a long forgotten dream? A vision of the cup if Christ?

Stay tuned... if I find this subconscious image in the real world, I will let you know.

Below appears to be another structural absurdity. With numbers. Numbers that appear to be my Thomas the Tank Engine editing notes. I'm pretty sure I could build this and Vancouver Parks Board would put it in the middle of some local greenery as art.

Also there appears to be a frame beside it?

Sam and I got talking about French Bulldogs at some point... I assume that is why the following image exists.

His name is Desmond. I will own him one day.

Finally, I appear to have started doodling a superhero. This happens a lot when I doodle. Maybe it's because I secretly dream of bursting from behind my computer, running out of the studio and flying away to fight crime. But I think mostly it comes from just drawing a stick figure is boring. Masks and capes make everything cooler.

I tried to figure out what was going on in the bottom of the superhero doodle...

Then I realized it's just another superhero... running.

A+

So yeah. While there are quite a few drawings here, I can't give each a credit. It was all done in one session, completely subconsciously. If I were to frame the piece, someone would say "what a crappy drawing", not "What a crappy collection of little drawings".

So there you have it. I clearly need to be drawing more... just gotta get through Christmas.

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A MILLION!?!?! I thought it was ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND!??!?

You're RIGHT! In my search for the famous Chuck Jones quote about bad drawings, I consistently found it quoted as " Everyone has a million bad drawings in them...". It turns out Chuck Jones was quoting his teacher, and his his teacher had told him that everyone has "one hundred thousand" in them...

However, I consider myself a pretty crappy artist, and I probably have more than a hundred thousand bad drawings in me. So this blog is my attempt to get the MILLION bad drawings out of my system and be an AWESOME artist. This may never happen. A million drawings is a lot. But "A Million Bad Drawings" has a better ring to it than "One Hundred Thousand Bad Drawings", right?

I should note that I generally hate everything I draw, and I'm not fishing for compliments. "That's not bad!" does not help me. Critique does! Critique away! Let me know what I'm doing wrong. You won't hurt my feelings. Asshole.